Even though on paper the gun is great except the dpm, it misses way too many shots, and since the reload time so bad, one miss, and you are dead. Buff the dpm or the aim time, and voilá, problem solved.

Seriously, the T34 is so much worse a platform than the T29 it's not even funny, and the T29 is already a bit clunky at tier 7 so the T34 is absurdly bad at tier 8.

Despite the 2 tanks having identical hull/tracks with the same P/W ratio and almost identical weight, the T34 gets 30% worse ground resistance and it's only got 2/3rds the turret traverse with less hull traverse too (again, T29s are already vulnerable to getting circled, but the T34 can be circled by heavies).

I know people are doing magical things in that tank, but I'm not one of them.

The gun handling is, as already said, simply terrible. Then a little bit mobility and power/weight ratio would be great too. As a hull-down warrior, that thing needs ages to get into position and retreat.

Once this tank was much better then the Löwe, but nowadays it needs a good buff.

Buffing the T34 doesn't put any extra money into WG's pockets, so it's probably very low on their to do list. (Turretroof buff wouldn't be too much to ask, along with gun handling and reload)

You have seen how premium tank population spikes when they buff some of them right? T34 sales have stalled, and the population of it hardly goes up. So did the Panther M10 and the T-34-85M that no one bought. Buffed it and put it up for sale and the population did double overnight on both of them. STA-2, Lowe and M4 Rev did more or less the same after their buffs. Their population did spike again.

T34 needs some attention. Pen and alpha is the only good thing about it. But in the current meta it's no longer something special. And there is no need to have that bad DPM and aim time. Buff those two to competitive levels again vs other tier 8 guns of that caliber. And people will come back to it. As atm, I prefer to train my upcoming T32 crew in the T14 more so then the T34. As it's easier to do well in that one consistently vs the T34 for crew XP.

Alex_Connor, on 22 December 2017 - 11:45 PM, said:

Seriously, the T34 is so much worse a platform than the T29 it's not even funny, and the T29 is already a bit clunky at tier 7 so the T34 is absurdly bad at tier 8.

T29 is still the best tier 7 HT around. More versatile tier for tier then the T34 ever was.